Steam Video Game Has Players Participate in Oct. 7 Atrocities

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Steam publishes a video game in which the player participates in the atrocities of October 7th, which is a thing so beyond the pale that I don’t even know where to begin.

Genocide games are suitable for no one.

People might want to complain to Steam about this genocide game.

Here is where to find it on the desktop version:

This is blatant anti-Semitism. Please complain if you are willing to go on Steam to do it.

Video game writer Sarah Einstein wrote:

“As someone who teaches writing for video games, I am deeply aware of how they impact players’ understandings of the world and can even create identification with groups—real and imagined—to whom the player comes to feel they “belong” through gameplay.”

Don’t let the lunatics teach your children to slaughter people.


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Anonymous2
5 months ago

I am going to make 2 statements. Please don’t respond to this without reading both.

  1. I think it is significant the way Valve handles what they allow on steam. Steam is a platform that tries its best not to have censorship. this is extremely rare. Provided a game meets their guidelines, and is not a violation of the law, it should be allowed. In the United Kingdom of Censorship, the game is not available for purchase, because the UK asked them to disallow it. I don’t think our first reaction to things we don’t like should be censorship. This creates many problems down the road. Just imagine if someone made a Bible based game(which arguably would not include genocide) and someone didn’t like it. Should that be censored too?
  2. On a personal level this disgusts me. I would very much like for this to not exist. I am not against violence in computer/video games at all, but context and type of violence, and gore are critical to determining what I personally view as acceptable. That said, I don’t think censorship is the correct response to things we don’t like. (I’m not going to cover further more correct ways to address this in this post, though I’d like to. That is a much longer discussion.)
Anonymous
Anonymous
5 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous2

The game should be taken down, at the least, it is condoning and normalizing terrorism, and has the potential to instill contentious thoughts in the minds of the naive and or mentally ill.

The game also does have the potential of normalizing terrorism in the minds of children or in an unstable individual who has been already affected by the real life terrorist act.

It’s not practical for someone to not take the responsibility for leaving the content up or of taking it down at this point. The cat is out of the bag now. The game exists in reality for one reason, because someone ridden with hatred already, wanted to offend and to provoke others.

Last edited 5 months ago by Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
5 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous

PS. You know FRANK ZAPPA was one of the most anti censorship people to ever walk the planet. The only thing that ever disturbed him about content, other than he was vehemently opposed to the censorship of words in any form. He was a critic against the media and film industries use of violence in the entertainment industry, which he claimed already has and is effecting children’s behavior, and that it has already caused a major negative impact on society as whole. I’d say he was and is spot on. There are no solutions to anything in reality, there are only trade offs.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous

To clarify one point on ZAPPAS comment. He made the point of the news media and film industries use of violence in the entertainment industry, in retrospect. He was there as a witness before the media became a violence pusher for entertainment and news. And as he stated children had more morals back then, and would not even think of doing some of the things children say or do today.

When people were exposed to and consuming wholesome programing. Instead of today’s media, exploiting violence, adventure, dramatized racy fictional content for news and entertainment. Never used to occur, period!. And he was correct.

They don’t call it programing for nothing, you’re being manipulated one way or another by the environment around you to be of a certain mindset, whether you realize it or it not. And children are naturally unaware of that fact, and are essentially a blank canvas for the family and the environment to paint upon. In that sense on a macro sociological = environmental scale it does take a village to protect future generations from falling into tyranny. So the story goes “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 months ago

That’s not a video game by any stretch of the imagination, it’s PYSOP, terrorists propaganda.